Economy

"The folks pushing austerity are going to push austerity no matter what the numbers say.” —Pat Garofalo

Cenk Uygur, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hastings break down why the distribution of wealth in the U.S. is broken and why it's so hard to fix.

"Come on down to South Carolina. And if you’re a lying, cheating, swindling, heartless, hypocrite, political empty suit who tells us what we want to hear, we just might elect you to office too." —John Fugelsang

"Just one pill in the morning gives you that sense of righteous false equivalency, with none of the pesky awareness that you’re actually exploiting four tragic American deaths." —John Fugelsang

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“(The sequester will hurt) the kids who can’t get into Head Start, and the people whose food stamps are going to get cut, and a lot of people who don’t get covered quite as extensively as people who get delayed [...]

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"The gift shop [at the Bush museum] sells just one thing: it's the deficit, and it's the gift that keeps on giving." —Elayne Boosler

"Bush’s greatest achievement for which I will always personally thank him: He didn’t die in office." —John Fugelsang

Retired Col. Morris Davis, former Guantanamo Bay chief prosecutor, and ex-CIA agent Lindsay Moran tell Cenk Uygur about working for the U.S. government while former President George W. Bush was in office.

"We thank Mrs. Thatcher for influencing so many great artists to write protest songs against Mrs. Thatcher." —John Fugelsang